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The typical image of a modern biological research lab involves high-tech machinery and table-sized microscopes; at most, there might be some dishes of cells or a few mice floating around. For people with those images in mind, yesterday's odd report on how federal inspectors were surprised to find 841 goats at a California biotech facility they didn't even know existed might come as a surprise. Why, you might wonder, would Santa Cruz Biotechnology need a secret herd of goats at all?
As it turns out, goats (along with rabbits and a handful of other animals) play a key role in modern bioscience—but on the supply side, not the research side. A paper found in a major science journal might well have depended on a goat in some way; it's just that the lab never saw the animal. Instead, the goat probably lived at a facility like the one that's under investigation, while the research lab received the goat's contribution via a UPS shipment.
The men who stare at goats
So what does a goat (or a bunny) offer a biologist? Antibodies. Antibodies are useful for several procedures conducted by biologists because they can stick so specifically to a single target. If you can raise antibodies against a specific protein, you can then use those antibodies to purify that protein out of the huge mix of proteins produced by a cell. If you can generate antibodies to a protein that's on the surface of a cell, you can use them to purify whole cells out of a mixed population.
Antibodies can also be tagged with fluorescent molecules so that they light up all the locations within a cell where the protein normally resides. The result is images like the one below.
Now, you can generate antibodies using many different animals. All you need to do in many cases is inject the protein you're interested in—or even just a fragment of it—into the target animal; its immune system will do the rest. One convenient option is mice, since many research institutions have experience working with them, but mice have a short lifespan and a small blood supply, meaning you don't get much antibody out of them. (There are ways to create cells that provide a permanent supply of mouse antibodies, but they're technically challenging and have a few drawbacks.) If your mouse dies and you still need more antibody, your only option is to inject the protein into a new mouse and start over again, though with no guarantee that any of the new antibodies will have an equivalent quality to the old ones.
Researchers have instead turned to some larger and longer-lived species. Chickens can work well, since they pump lots of antibodies into their eggs, and they produce a lot of eggs. Rabbits live longer than mice, and it's possible to take larger blood samples from them. But goats are better still in both regards.
Euthanizing the factory
Even with goats, however, all good things must come to an end, and that's a problem for Santa Cruz Biotechnology. The company earns its money by providing a huge range of antibodies for all sorts of proteins, some of which are only going to be of interest only to a few dozen labs on the entire planet. For the company, the death of a goat can mean the end of a product.
And Santa Cruz isn't always given the chance to decide when the goats die. Research animals are covered by the Animal Welfare Act, enforced by the US Department of Agriculture. Its rules mean that, among other things, an animal suffering from problems that leave it in pain should be euthanized. But USDA inspectors have, in the past, found problems with Santa Cruz's compliance—including one goat with a large tumor that was kept alive to get more antibody out of it.
This doesn't mean that the recently discovered collection of 841 goats was intentionally hidden; the company told Nature that it had properly disclosed all goats, including the "secret" herd. But the USDA says it knew nothing about the goats and that the existence of the facility in question was directly denied by company officials, despite having been in use for over two years. Several of the goats found at the newly discovered facility were in poor health (though it's not clear any of them were at the point where regulations would require euthanasia).
Still, if you thought that there was no possible reason for a company to hide goats, Santa Cruz actually has one. Whether it did so or not will be determined by investigators.


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Today's News: Our Take - Hugh Hefner Marries Runaway Bride Crystal Harris
The second time was the charm for Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris, who married New Year's Eve at the Playboy Mansion, Us Weekly reports.
Photos: Everybody's posing nude! Check out Rihanna and other stars who've bared all
Hefner, 86, and Harris, 26, were previously engaged in December 2010. However, Harris called off the wedding in June 2011, just days before the ceremony. Harris confirmed that the two had reconciled a year later and news broke that Hefner had proposed again earlier this month.
This is Harris' first marriage and Hefner's third. He was previously married to Mildred Williams from 1949 to 1959 and the couple had two children together. He was then married to Kimberly Conrad - with whom he also had two children - from 1989 to 2009.
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The party that doomed its nominee
The headline was inevitable: "What went wrong?"
Republicans plan to commence focus groups and voter-based polls to discover the mystery behind their loss. Having sat staring into space the past couple of days, they now want to get to the bottom of it.
The bubble in which most politicians and their staffs live is not just a metaphor, apparently. The answer has been so obvious for so long and in so many ways, one has to wonder what these people read in their spare time. Old issues of Boys' Life?
If nothing else, one had to look only at the two political conventions. One was colorful, vibrant, excited and happy. The other was pale, moribund, staid and restrained. If the latter sounds like something in the final stages of life, you're not far off.
A couple of weeks before the election, I spoke to an audience of about 450 in Florida, the demographics of which were about 80 percent male, 90 percent Republican and, oh, about 99.9 percent white.
What could be more fun than that!
Alas, the bulk of my talk was criticism of the Republican Party. If Mitt Romney loses, I told them, it will be largely the fault of the party. As I spelled out the details, nary a creature was stirring. It was painfully quiet. Even my best jokes fell flat. Hey, guys, that was funny!
It was hard to tell whether they resented the messenger or were trying to digest the unpalatable truth. Truth is often painful, and the days since President Obama's reelection have been a salted slugfest. Amid the writhing, I rest my case.
Some Republicans stubbornly insist, of course, that the problem was that Romney wasn't conservative enough. Really? In his heart, this may be true. I never believed Romney was passionate about social issues. He embraced them because he had to, but he had no intention of pursuing a socially conservative agenda.
But the real problem is the Republican Party, which would not be recognizable to its patron saint, Ronald Reagan. The party doesn't need a poll or a focus group. It needs a mirror.
The truth is, Romney was better than the GOP deserved. Party nitwits undermined him, and the self-righteous tried to bring him down. The nitwits are well-enough known at this point — those farthest-right social conservatives who couldn't find it in their hearts to keep their traps shut. No abortion for rape or incest? Sit down. Legitimate rape? Put on your clown suit and go play in the street.
Equally damaging were the primary leeches who embarrassed the party and wouldn't leave the stage. Nine-nine-nine, we're talking about you, Herman Cain. And Gov. Oops? You, too. And then there were Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann, who never had a real shot at the nomination and certainly could never win a national election, yet they refused to surrender to the certain nominee.
Did they have a right to persist in their own fantasies? Sure. But not if they were serious about getting a Republican in the White House. Thus, for months and months, Romney had to spend his energy and, as important, his money to prevail in the primaries against opponents who had no chance and who ultimately hurt him. During that same precious time, Obama's campaign was busy pinpointing specific voters, practically learning the names of their dogs, and buying ads in niche markets.
More to the point, the GOP seems willfully clueless. There's a reason there are so few minorities in the party. There's a reason women scrambled to the other side. There's a reason Hispanics, including even Cuban Americans this time, went for Obama.
The way forward is about love, not war, baby. Women's reproductive rights need to come off the table. As Haley Barbour suggested long ago, agree to disagree. Compassionate immigration reform, including a path to citizenship, should be the centerpiece of a conservative party's agenda.
Marginalize or banish those who in any way make African Americans, gays, single women or any other human being feel unwelcome in a party that cherishes the values of limited government, low taxes and freedom. A large swath of conservative-minded Americans are Democrats and independents by default.
Mitt Romney would have been a fine president and might have won the day but for the party he had to please.
Kathleen Parker: An election that debased our dreams
Charles Krauthammer: The way forward
Michael Gerson: Rebuilding the GOP's appeal


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On May 12th, we announced this year's Shavuos Contest, as a result we received 26 entries. Some were great, others mediocre. We agonized over which deserved to win, but in the end SYR and I agreed that Pessy Haskelevich's entry was the best.
Here is her prize:
Who is Ms. Haskelevich? She's a food and wine specialist and private chef. She's catered numerous wine pairing dinners, done Shabatot at hotels, she also does cooking demos for adults and cooking clubs for kids. While talking to Pessy through email I found her very creative, witty and knowledgeable about wine and the delicate nuances of food. You may contact her at: anatomyof email@example.com.
Beet and Asparagus Crostatta
Whether sweet or savory a crostatta is less fussy than a traditional tart and offers a more crisp crust. Use your imagination to change it up throughout the year; butternut squash and red onions in winter, tomatoes and corn in summer and this can easily be dessert if you add ¼ cup sugar to the dough and fill it with fresh fruit.
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 stick cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 4-6 tablespoons ice-cold water
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 2 pounds beets, cut in half and thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 20 mint leaves chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 stalks asparagus cut into 3 inch pieces
- 4 oz ricotta or soft goat cheese (optional)
- ¼ cup walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
- Pulse flour and salt in the food processor. Add the butter and pulse 10 times or until mixture resembles a coarse meal.
- Drizzle ice water evenly over mixture and pulse until it just forms a ball. (Do not overwork dough, or pastry will be tough.)
- Gently press dough into a 5-inch disk and chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400°F with rack in middle.
- Toss beets with vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper and mint. Set aside
- Roll out dough into a 13-inch round on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin.
- Transfer to a baking sheet lined with slightly greased parchment paper.
- Distribute the chopped walnuts in the center of the dough leaving a 2-3 inch border.
- Leaving the juices behind arrange the beets with the asparagus on top of the walnuts. If using cheese, dot the top of the crostatta with small pieces of ricotta or goat cheese.
- Fold dough in on itself to cover outer rim of filling, pleating dough as necessary.
- Drizzle a tiny bit of olive oil and freshly ground pepper all over top of the crostata.
- Brush pastry with beaten egg and bake galette until crust is cooked through and golden on edges, 40-45 minutes.
- Cool on baking sheet on a rack 10 minutes before serving.


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It's official! Southwest Airlines cleared to offer service to Hawaii
Kristin Finan
Southwest Airlines announced on Wednesday that it has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to offer service to Hawaii from California, according to a report by Reuters. The airline also said it will release the timing for selling tickets soon.
The announcement follows months of speculation and anticipation.
Although the certification process was delayed in part because of the government shutdown, some sources have said flights could be offered to passengers as soon as next month. Initial flights will leave out of California cities including Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento and San Jose, with service into Honolulu, Kona, Kahului and Lihue, Southwest has said. Inter-island service will also be offered.


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Dress Up These Pigs in a Blanket for the Big Game (You'll Hardly Recognize Them)
Photo by Andrew Purcell, food styling by Carrie Purcell
Stockpiled the beer? Picked the popcorn? Great. But there's still one more thing for you to do before the big game kicks off: Design your very own pigs-in-a-blanket.
Oh, wait, were you planning to go with the basic model? They'll do in a pinch. But in just three simple steps, you can go beyond cocktail wieners and puff pastry, giving this old-school party snack an all-star makeover.


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Price is new VP and COO for Sparrow Ionia Hospital
Kevin Price has been named the new vice president and chief operating officer for Sparrow Ionia Hospital.
"I'm excited for the opportunity to join Ionia Sparrow Hospital's team and meet more people in the community," said Price.
He added the commitment to build a new facility by the Ionia County Airport will ensure that patients will have the best up-to-date care.
"We're excited to have the opportunity to build a new facility that will provide people with the upgraded technology to give the best service," Price said.
His new position takes effect immediately.
With 30 years of experience in heath care, Price has experience in operations at St. Johns Macomb Hospital and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
"I think I can bring experience in heath care in large and small hospitals, since I've worked in both, but working in a small hospital is what I would call refreshing," Price added. "I love the challenges and the opportunity to meet the needs of our patients."
In addition, he is a mentor at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health and served as the Hospice of Michigan's corporate director of contract and physician services. He also gives lectures in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Michigan - Flint, and is a member of the Legislative Policy Panel and Small and Rural Hospital Council of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association.
Sparrow Ionia Hospital President and CEO Bill Roeser said he and other staff members are excited to have Price join their team.
"He brings a strong base of knowledge regarding the operations of a critical access hospital," said Roeser in a press release.
Price earned his bachelor's degree in biology and his master's degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan. He also is a member of the American College of Heathcare Executives and is certified in advanced respiratory therapy.
He has held the position of COO for Sparrow Clinton Hospital for the last five years, and will add the title of VP for the hospital as well.


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Friday Philosophy – Presenting Leads to Drinking, Discuss June 15, 2012Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy, humour, Meeting notes, UKOUG.
Tags: behaviour, Humour, Meeting
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Just a quick Friday Philosophy {the day job is very demanding at the moment, thus the silence on the Blog front}
I'm presenting in Leeds at the start of July on UKOUG AIM SIG on "The First Few Things You Need To Know About Exadata". As part of the final preparation of the agenda it's been raised that we should have a beer after the event and put it on the agenda.
Now, when I ran the Management and Infrastructure SIG, there was always a last item of "retire to a pub for a drink or two". It is a common feature of technical UKOUG SIGs and a great opportunity to chat to the speakers more.
Chat to the speakers. Now I think about it, most of the speakers always make it to the pub after a SIG. If the attendance on the day is 10% speakers, 10% committee and 80% delegates, the make-up in the pub will be 30% speakers, 20% committee and 50% delegates, or similar.
At conferences, the bars in the evening are covered in speakers (all still speaking – loudly and {usually} drunkenly).
So, is it that:
- Speaking leads to elevated drinking
- Drinking makes you more of a sucker for speaking
- Speaking and Drinking have a shared genetic basis
- It's just me.
My excuse is that all that hot air coming out my mouth makes it dry and it needs a little wetting afterwards…


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Friday, April 01, 2011
Are you listening to me now???
PZ Myers, the little jerkface, time to bury him under piles of squid. I BET HE'D LIKE THAT!
Katy Perry has B**BS! And Elmo is looking! DON'T THINK WE AREN'T ON TO YOU, ELMO!!!
Can you hear me, you ill-begotten miscreants?
Just like this cat...
...We will trap all atheists... IN A BOX!!!!!!!!!!
Screw all of you! I am OFF my MEDS and I couldn't be more ravenous!
He speaks the truth!
We will get you out LIKE MUSTARD!!!!!!!
Blah blah blah blah froth froth froth glurk argh splunge.
Watch out, Dawkins, I'm COMING FOR YOUR BLOG NEXT!!!!!!!
MANIACAL LAUGHTER! This will show them all. They're bound to take me seriously NOW.
[Update: Phew! April 1 is finally over, and I can change my blogger name back to Kazim instead of DM.
I hope it's obvious to all the commenters that I was in no way expecting to "fool" anyone, but I hope you got a laugh out of it. :)]
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I particularly like the Buffy reference.ReplyDelete
Happy Atheist Day.
Watch out! Infinite Amount of Monkeys! Coming your way next fall!ReplyDelete
Why do bad things always happen this time of year? I believe last year everyone quit the show and became Christians. What ever happened with that?ReplyDelete
˙sɐʍ ʇı ʇɐɥʍ ʇno ǝɹnƃıɟ ʇ,uɐɔ ʇsnɾ ı ˙oǝpıʌ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ puoɔǝs ǝɥʇ ʇnoqɐ ǝƃuɐɹʇs ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sɐʍ ǝɹǝɥʇReplyDelete
Dennis is so bizzare. The most common things he posts on my blog are links to forums and Depeche Mode videos.ReplyDelete
Got me there for a second!ReplyDelete
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David Mabus lolReplyDelete
i find the above reasoning to be sound... i am now convincedReplyDelete
I lol'd! The only way is to divide their bombs by zero!ReplyDelete
Wait!!! SHIIIIII...
Somebody set up us the bomb!!ReplyDelete
A nice way to start April Fools Day.ReplyDelete
Needs moar flaming goats.ReplyDelete
Almost had me. I was like.. wtf? Did they get hacked?ReplyDelete
Happy Atheists' Day!ReplyDelete
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You know how I could tell this wasn't DM, aside from the date (and the fact that there's no way he hacked this blog)? This post makes far too much sense and connects the dots too coherently. Half the time the videos DM posts have nothing apparently to do with what he's saying, or are saying the opposite of his triumphant declarations. A Mabus post would have left it at "Just like this cat" and then followed it with "BLAMMO" or something.ReplyDelete
But it's still a great gag -- happy atheists' day!
Atheist Apocalypse Now. The horror... the horror...ReplyDelete
Today might be the right time to reveal it: I am the Antichrist.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the laughs!ReplyDelete
... piles of squid ... HA!
HA, I love it! I get posts from this guy too. On twitter and on my blog. He never makes any sense.ReplyDelete
The cat in the box was funny.ReplyDelete
I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!ReplyDelete
I wonder if DM is reading this, thinking to himself, "Finally! They get it! I've finally gotten my message across!"ReplyDelete
Do we have the right to burn sam harris?ReplyDelete
That is a giant cat!ReplyDelete
Katie Perry. Proper nice.ReplyDelete
So here's some irony: You'll notice that I had to delete a real DM post from the fake DM post. His latest post was no different than usual, so I am pretty confident that he doesn't read his targets at all.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love the Lord Privy Seal type things that DM always does...ReplyDelete
And, Russell, you should have disemvoweled DM's post instead of deleting it; I imagine that reading them without vowels would be very funny indeed ;-)
This post was really only missing one thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDEReplyDelete
Although given the day, this might have been more appropriate. But it's not a DM comment without a little DM.
What does DM do for a living, anyway? PZ said recently that he's been at this for 17 years. I don't want to know specifics but I really have to wonder how the dude finds the time to take care of even the basics of survival like food and shelter when he spends all his time making sock accounts on various websites.ReplyDelete
Do we have the right to burn sam harris?ReplyDelete
Do we have the right to burn sam harris?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/03/2011 12:02 AM
Do we have the right to burn sam harris?ReplyDelete
Is the pope holding to his view that god doesn't give one whit about child rape?ReplyDelete
My Magic 8 Ball says "Yes, unequivocally." ;)
All your base are belong to us is definately, 'schizo.' Haha..I finally get what this blog was about after being somewhat confused.ReplyDelete
@Dorkman Thinking DM has a mental illness although I've never got to read his comments due to censorship.
All my brain cells are belong to that phrase now. Dammit!ReplyDelete
Great. Now I get to have "All your base are belong to us" stuck in my head.ReplyDelete
Gods_misled_children: DM's comments are all around the web, and they're generally uniform. He occasionally adds some new current event reference to the top, like when he started talking about Boobquake. It's all about how Atheists are going to die, specifically PZ and James Randi, and how Nostradamus is totally awesome. Do a quick Googling, and the "censorship" will be lifted.ReplyDelete
The "all your bases" video was ripped off something I saw years ago, anybody remember it?ReplyDelete
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Date: Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 21:46:03
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VICTORY TO THE LIGHT – Now the PROCESS of ARRESTING the last HOLD-OUTS ! Taking a bit LONGER than expected. Some have decided to go back to the LIGHT, they will be welcomed as well.
SOLAR SYSTEM QUARANTINE STILL ON! ALL DARK BEINGS have been CLEANED out of our EARTH'S SOLAR SYSTEM. EXCEPT for EARTH, who we are in PROCESS of CLEARING THEM to a more 'SUITABLE PLANET."
SAINT ANDREW QUOTES: for YOU
"SHARING is CARING"
"LOVE is the ANSWER"
"MY HEART is MY HOME"
"HELP the NEEDY not the GREEDY"
"YOU are LIMITLESS not LIMITED"
"Over Meditate NOT over Medicate"
"GO with the FLOW" Your LOVE Vortex !"
YOU are LOVE MASTERS, did YOU forget?
Answers are inside where Love and Light exist.
"It is WISE to learn from your mistakes, it is WISER to learn from other people's mistakes" – Saint Andrew
LOTS of "CABAL BEINGS ARE being ARRESTED!" FOR those "LAGGARDS who REFUSE this LIGHT!' WILL HAVE to BE REMOVED EVENTUALLY as they won't be able to "HOLD ALL the INCOMING LOVE-LIGHT FREQUENCIES!" This MAY RESULT in their physical body moving on. There is NO SUCH THING as DEATH, YOU JUST MOVE-ON, to ANOTHER LEVEL as YOU ARE ALL ETERNAL BEINGS.
AS – you DO NOT DIE SPIRITUALLY, YOU ARE ETERNAL SOULS, YOU will MOVE back up the DIMENSIONS, This is NOT to be confused with those WHO have been trained or wrongly programmed believing that there is NO GOD or HEAVEN. You will be pure LIGHT BEINGS soon.
SOME CABAL who FIGHTING AGAINST US, HAVE BEEN REMOVED, SOME WENT BACK to the LIGHT, while OTHERS were REMOVED from the Planet, some still ARE BEING removed, as UNDERGROUND BASES are being BLOWN-UP !
The EARTH ALLIANCE is RESCUING CHILDREN from UNDERGROUND BASES ! And they are ARRESTING the CABAL then blowing-up these CLONING and child TRAFFICKING bases.
ANYONE STANDING in GOD and HEAVEN'S WAY, who wishes to KILL, ROB HUMANITY and CONTROL OTHERS, WILL be REMOVED.
MOTHER and FATHER GOD came from ANDROMEDA as the "HOUSE of RA" to be with us and help with ASCENSION for 25 years and HOW BEAUTIFUL is that everyone !
SOME are GODS & GODDESSES in TRAINING !
YOU ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS in HUMAN FORM
HEAVEN is VERY SUPERNATURAL, YOU WILL LEARN YOU are too! Get ready for your powers.
WE ARE ANGELIC BEINGS – GODS and GODDESSES – ALL of YOU HAVE IMMENSE POWER yours to DISCOVER!
ANY LEFT-OVER DARK BEINGS are NOT allowed to interfere with YOUR HOLY ASCENSION PROCESS! STAY AWAY from MSM MANUFACTURED FEAR VIBES DAILY
LUCIFER lied – never went back to the LIGHT and MOTHER of ALL CREATION is a FAKE = LIAR !
I DECLARE, ETERNAL LOVE, PEACE,UNITY, HARMONY, GRATITUDE, JOY, CREATIVITY, APPRECIATION, AND PROSPERITY for ALL!
"WORLD-WIDE FREEDOM from SLAVERY !"
YOU have the ability to CREATE – CREATE CHANGES!
NO MASSIVE DESTRUCTION is ALLOWED to OCCUR! = NO NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III
"NO" END OF THE WORLD it's ALL FEAR PORN
OUR ASCENSION has ALREADY STARTED
PEOPLE ARE ASCENDING at their OWN PACE
It is a SLOW and a CONTINUAL PROCESS
PEOPLE are at all DIFFERENT LEVELS
of this PROCESS. It is a NATURAL PROCESS.
TEACHERS and MENTORS ARE ALREADY HERE so GET READY TO MEET THEM !
You have had many lifetimes. YOU have been MALE and YOU have been FEMALE, YOU have been different races, religions and sexes, lived different cultures, give up all the racist attitudes !
The STRONGEST and
most POWERFUL FORCE
in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE
LOVE is YOUR
USE it with INTENTION
as you send it out.
USE the VIOLET FLAME
of SAINT GERMAIN daily.
Pull down your PILLAR of WHITE LIGHT
from your [YOUR HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL SELF] to PROTECT YOU daily and INVOKE the GOLDEN RAY of CHRIST in a BALL 2 feet around YOU. If you FEEL THREATENED. Then put that GOLDEN BALL inside of your white PILLAR of LIGHT around YOU at the bottom. PLACE a MIRROR facing outwards around that OVOID ball of GOLDEN LIGHT and SAY; "ALL ACTIONS and INTENTIONS, DEVICES and WEAPONS, and ATTACKS on ME in ANY TIMELINE or DIMENSIONS, – RETURN it to SENDER, and SO IT IS." Namaste'
WEAR AMETHYST and CITRINE while ASCENDING and clear quartz is powerful too.
STUDY the ENERGIES of the CRYSTALS
"Your EYES are the WINDOWS to your SOUL"
MOTHER EARTH [TERRA] is ASCENDING and HAVING her own BIRTH PANGS but will STAY 4D – YET GAIA is like another earth [D] that is ASCENDING – LIKE a MOTHER in LABOR – SHE is ASCENDING NOW, an ONGOING PROCESS. LOVE YOUR PLANET, MOTHER EARTH as SHE SUSTAINS YOU! WE are NOW in the MIDDLE of the birthing process.
ALL must get to KNOW THIS;
The KINGDOM OF GOD
is WITHIN YOU, INSIDE of YOU!
NOT in ANY STATUES and MONUMENTS.
And NOT inside every CHURCH or souls gather.
BLESSINGS to PROSPERITY is in the WORKS,
THANK-YOU to ALL involved with this. THANK-YOU to ALL GALACTIC BEINGS, ANGELICS and STAR FAMILIES!
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TRUDEAU = REPTILE WORM = NIMROD ? NIMROD was an EVIL BABYLON KING
LUCIFER = [Archangel AZUL] [who was attacking LIGHT-WORKERS turned into a COBRA SNAKE and is now helping the LIGHT ? HEAVEN is dealing with him so don't worry he can't hurt you.
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The UNIVERSE is POWERFUL, both KNOWN and UNKNOWN and SEEN and UNSEEN, NO need to be worried just GO with the FLOW…, Saint Andrew
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This page describes a setup where you have a [http://smarden.org/runit runit] installation on the host and use it to directly supervise services running in vserver guests.
This page describes a setup where you have a [http://smarden.org/runit runit] installation on the host and use it to directly supervise services running in vserver guests.
== Prerequisites ==
== Prerequisites ==
Revision as of 21:57, 23 November 2009
This page describes a setup where you have a runit installation on the host and use it to directly supervise services running in vserver guests.
Motivation and goals
This is what I wanted to achieve:
- Partition a physical server with many responsibilities into vservers that can easily be upgraded individually without breaking any unrelated stuff.
- Each service or small set of services should run in its own vserver.
- Services should be supervised (started, stopped and managed) by runit.
- Service logs should accumulate on the host, not the guests.
- svlogd rotates them nicely and can invoke my multilogcheck script to alert me of unusual events as a postprocessor, but
- I don't want to install multilogcheck inside every vserver because it's messy.
- I don't like syslog. There are many problems with it, but I won't go into that here.
- Therefore, services mostly log to stdout and thus to svlogd.
- For services that absolutely must use syslog, I provide socklog.
- Again, I don't want a separate socklog instance in every vserver.
- Alas, socklog is unable to listen on more than one Unix domain socket.
- Luckily, socat can be used to relay syslog messages from the vservers to the master socklog on the host. (syslog-ng would also have done the job nicely.)
- It's also possible to bind mount the /dev/log socket in every guest; however, I'm afraid this breaks if you restart socklog after a guest is up. Workaround: make /dev/log a symlink to, say, /var/run/syslog/socket everywhere and bind mount the host's /var/run/syslog directory in the guests; that way the socket will still be available even if socklog unlinks and recreates it.
- It should be straightforward and next to transparent to manage the services running in vservers.
- With runit, it's easy to delegate management rights of a service to users (chown and chmod some files in the pertinent supervise directory). This should continue to work.
- A fairly recent vserver kernel with support for persistent contexts (I used 220.127.116.11-vs2.2.0-rc8.7).
- A recent version of util-vserver that supports persistent contexts correctly (I used 0.30.213-rc1).
- Daniel_Hozac's signal-relay program.
The big picture
Let's see how it all fits together.
We'd like to achieve something like this (output of vps axfu):
USER PID CONTEXT %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 104 16 ? Ss Jan29 0:06 runit root 4188 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 132 32 ? Ss Jan29 0:10 runsvdir -P /var/service log: ....................................................... root 4250 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 108 28 ? Ss Jan29 0:00 \_ runsv vserver-logrelay-squid log 4256 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 128 44 ? S Jan29 0:00 | \_ svlogd -t /var/log/sv/vserver-logrelay-squid logrelay 3106 0 MAIN 0.0 0.1 25428 1944 ? S 00:44 0:00 | \_ socat -d -d -d -D -ls -u UNIX-LISTEN:/etc/vservers/squid/vdir/dev/log,unlink-early,nonblock,mode=666,setuid=logrelay UNIX-CONNECT:/dev/log,type=2,nonblock,forever root 19272 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 108 28 ? Ss Feb01 0:00 \_ runsv squid log 19273 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 128 44 ? S Feb01 0:00 | \_ svlogd -t /var/log/sv/squid root 10324 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 5728 364 ? S Feb01 0:00 | \_ signal-relay vserver squid exec squid -N -D -sYC proxy 10334 2 squid 0.0 0.5 24968 8036 ? Sl Feb01 0:01 | \_ squid -N -D -sYC root 24219 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 108 32 ? Ss 02:02 0:00 \_ runsv nmbd root 24220 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 5732 376 ? S 02:02 0:00 | \_ signal-relay vserver samba exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -F root 24230 3 samba 0.0 0.1 30080 2360 ? Ss 02:02 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -F root 24251 3 samba 0.0 0.0 32172 1496 ? S 02:02 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/nmbd -F root 24253 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 108 28 ? Ss 02:02 0:00 \_ runsv smbd root 24254 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 5732 376 ? S 02:02 0:00 | \_ signal-relay vserver samba exec /usr/sbin/smbd -F root 24268 3 samba 0.0 0.2 41888 3404 ? Ss 02:02 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -F root 24289 3 samba 0.0 0.0 41888 1232 ? S 02:02 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/smbd -F root 29625 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 104 28 ? Ss 02:22 0:00 \_ runsv cron-squid root 29626 0 MAIN 0.0 0.0 5732 376 ? S 02:22 0:00 \_ signal-relay vserver squid exec cron -f root 29637 2 squid 0.0 0.0 11492 1060 ? S 02:22 0:00 \_ cron -f
For service supervision to work, we must be able to send signals to our services. Specifically, runsv must be able to send signals to its children. Alas, it's not prepared to send signals across context boundaries, which is where signal-relay comes in.
signal-relay is a small program not unlike runit's chpst that does the following:
- it forks a child;
- inside the child, it execs the program specified on its command line;
- in the parent, it sets up signal handlers for every signal that relay the signal to the child, even if the child is running in a different context;
- if the child exits, signal-relay exits.
- (It can also put the child into its own process group; use the -P switch. Sending signals to process groups in a different context doesn't work yet, though.)
Setting up the vservers
When we start a service for runit, we want the command that starts the service to stay in the foreground until the moment the service dies. vserver exec looks just right, but there is a catch: it only works for vservers that have been "started". vserver start, however, doesn't fit very well into the runit way of doing things. You can set it up as a service (this is discussed in util-vserver:InitStyles), but it seems superfluous to leave some processes around just to keep a vserver "started" so that we can run services in it.
What we need is a way of basically doing "start vserver <guest> if it's not started, then exec program <service> inside it". Normally, a context with no processes running inside it is destroyed by the kernel; thus, just setting /etc/vservers/guest/apps/init/cmd.start to /bin/true isn't going to work; we would need something that stays around for a while, like a script that calls sleep 1m &. This would make vserver start happy, so in our service run script, we could do something like
vserver guest status || vserver guest start exec signal-relay vserver guest exec /path/to/service-program
A more elegant solution is to make the guest context persistent. This way it sticks around even if there are no processes left in it.
cd /etc/vservers/guest echo persistent >>flags echo persistent >>nflags echo /bin/true >apps/init/cmd.start
(I guess nflags is for the network context.)
Now, vserver guest start should be able to "start" our vserver (set up all of its state), and exit without leaving stray processes around.
Running services
Say you have a vserver called squid, and you want to run your squid proxy inside it to keep it insulated from the other processes on the system, and vice versa.
In our current setup, the following run script will do the trick (it borrows a bit from Debian's initscript and uses the Debian defaults file):
#!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 # Set a default for max. filedescriptors SQUID_MAXFD=4096 # Figure out the name of the service we're running as SVNAME=$(basename $(pwd)) # Read the configfile of this service; if it sets VSERVERNAME, we'll assume we have to run inside the specified vserver CONFIG=/etc/default/"$SVNAME" [ -r "$CONFIG" ] && . "$CONFIG" # Source Debian defaults [ -n "$VSERVERNAME" ] && VROOT="/etc/vservers/$VSERVERNAME/vdir" || VROOT=/ [ -r "$VROOT/etc/default/squid" ] && . "$VROOT/etc/default/squid" [ "$SQUID_MAXFD" -gt 4096 ] && SQUID_MAXFD=4096 if test -f /proc/sys/fs/file-max; then global_file_max=$(cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max) minimal_file_max=$(($SQUID_MAXFD + 4096)) [ "$global_file_max" -lt "$minimal_file_max" ] && echo "$minimal_file_max" >/proc/sys/fs/file-max fi if [ ! "$VSERVERNAME" = "" ]; then VSERVERARGS="signal-relay vserver $VSERVERNAME exec" vserver "$VSERVERNAME" status || vserver "$VSERVERNAME" start # start the vserver if necessary fi exec chpst -o"$SQUID_MAXFD" $VSERVERARGS squid -N -D -sYC
This script is generic in the sense that it works with or without a vserver setup.
You can run an svlogd for this service like you normally would; or you could have all your svlogds run in a different vserver.
A run script for cron that automatically figures out if it should run in a vserver:
#!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 DEPENDENCIES="" RLIMIT="chpst -t 172800" SVNAME=$(basename $(pwd)) CONFIG=/etc/default/"$SVNAME" # Assume part after dash is name of vserver if [ ! "${SVNAME/*-/}" = "$SVNAME" ]; then VSERVERNAME="${SVNAME/*-/}" fi # By default, we depend on the socklog service if it exists [ -e /service/socklog ] && DEPENDENCIES=socklog # And also on the logrelay service of the pertinent vserver [ -e /service/vserver-logrelay-"$VSERVERNAME" ] && DEPENDENCIES="$DEPENDENCIES vserver-logrelay-$VSERVERNAME" # Can override VSERVERNAME, RLIMIT and DEPENDENCIES here if necessary [ -r "$CONFIG" ] && . "$CONFIG" if [ ! "$VSERVERNAME" = "" ]; then VSERVERARGS="signal-relay vserver $VSERVERNAME exec" vserver "$VSERVERNAME" status || vserver "$VSERVERNAME" start fi if [ -n "$DEPENDENCIES" ]; then sv start $DEPENDENCIES || exit 1 fi exec $RLIMIT $VSERVERARGS cron -f
Now, if you place this run script in a service directory called cron-squid, it will run a cron daemon in the squid guest. This takes care of rotating the squid logs under /var/log/squid, for example; although this could also be done on the host with a few kludges.
The vserver-logrelay-template/run script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 SVNAME=$(basename $(pwd)) RUNASUSER=logrelay MODE=666 VSERVERNAME=$(echo $SVNAME | sed 's/vserver-logrelay-//') [ -r "/etc/default/$SVNAME" ] && . "/etc/default/$SVNAME" exec socat -d -d -d -D -ls -u \ UNIX-LISTEN:/etc/vservers/$VSERVERNAME/vdir/dev/log,unlink-early,nonblock,mode=$MODE,setuid=$RUNASUSER \ UNIX-CONNECT:/dev/log,type=2,nonblock,forever
This will pass syslog messages from a vserver to the syslog of the host by acting as a syslog server for the /dev/log socket of the guest. Thus, you don't need to run a syslogd inside the vserver and you don't need to migrate to syslog-ng from socklog on the host.
Symlink this run script into a service directory called vserver-logrelay-squid.
Unfortunately, socat has a largish memory footprint; something more lightweight could, perhaps, be used.
Comments and additions welcome.
The most significant problem with this approach (as opposed to using initstyle plain and a separate runit instance in each vserver) is that it's no longer straightforward to manage the services running in vservers from inside the vservers; package management scripts can't stop them for upgrades, for example (unless you modify the initscripts in quite horrible ways).
Initial setup is also slightly more complicated.
These have to be weighed against the advantages of:
- having fewer superfluous processes (like a separate runit and runsvdir in each vserver);
- being able to manage the services easily from the host;
- avoiding the need to run sshd inside each guest in order to be able to easily delegate service management privileges to others.
Nowadays I tend to think the initstyle plain method is better after all.
--Guy- 12:18, 28 September 2008 (CET)


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GREEN BAY — James Starks was here all along.
He wasn't in the training room nursing an injury or on the bench because he fumbled or somewhere else completely because he didn't make the team.
Starks, the guy who arguably had the best training camp of any of the Green Bay Packers' backs this summer, was just waiting for a chance.
Sort of the opposite of gone but not forgotten.
That is, until he was needed during the Packers' 38-20 romp over Washington Sunday at Lambeau Field, a scenario that arose when rookie prospect Eddie Lacy was knocked out of the game on his first carry because of a brutal helmet-to-helmet hit initiated by Washington safety Brandon Meriweather.
Starks turned his opportunity into a virtuoso performance, rushing 20 times for a career-high 132 yards and a touchdown while adding another 36 yards on four receptions. He looked stronger and more powerful than the guy whose career flashed in the Packers' Super Bowl postseason of 2010.
"James has been a good player for us around here," coach Mike McCarthy said. "This has been a real challenge for him, with (draft picks) Eddie Lacy and Johnathan Franklin coming in, and he's just been a pro."
Starks didn't get many carries in the preseason because the coaches were working so hard to get Lacy and Franklin ready for the regular season, but from the first day of camp he looked like a different player. After spending the off-season dedicating himself to his physical fitness, he avoided injury and had the finest camp of his career.
When it finally came time to carry the ball in the regular season, he looked like someone who was built specifically for McCarthy's offense.
"James ran hard, man," guard Josh Sitton said.
Lacy, despite a inauspicious debut against San Francisco (a fumble, 2.9 yards per carry), got the start. McCarthy has been determined to tap into the rookie's potential and on the first series Sunday used him exclusively at halfback.
At the end of his only rush — a 10-yard blast in which he was vulnerable due to being off-balance — he absorbed a blow from Meriweather's helmet close to his chin. It was obvious right away there was a problem because Lacy took his time getting up and appeared dazed.
Once it was determined Lacy had a concussion, he was done for the day, a mandatory rule under the NFL's concussion protocol. Not only was he finished Sunday, he'll have to pass a series of tests proving he no longer has concussion-related symptoms before he'll be allowed to even practice.
It is conceivable Lacy could miss the Packers' game Sunday at Cincinnati, their last before the bye week.
McCarthy did not speculate on Lacy's probability for next week. He'll have to pass cognitive tests, make it through a series of physical trials and be cleared by an independent neurologist before being allowed to play again.
If Lacy can't play — and probably even if he can — Starks stands to take some of his snaps. After averaging 6.6 yards per carry, it's hard to imagine him being forgotten again.
"I know this is what I'm capable of doing," said Starks, who broke the Packers' string of 51 games (including playoffs) without a 100-yard rusher. "I just have to keep rolling. It's one game. I have to continue to get better, do things right each and every play and try to be a better player."
Against a Washington defense that had been gashed for 263 yards rushing against Philadelphia last week, Starks was patient while receiving a heavy diet of outside zone plays. The Packers' offensive line kept trying to stretch out plays to get Washington's linebackers to over-pursue and create cutback lanes for Starks.
On his first three carries, all on the Packers' first series, he ran for 3, minus-1 and 1 yard. He did not touch the ball on a running play again until the second quarter. On second and 4 at the Packers' 31, he ran off tackle to the left and broke into the Redskins' secondary.
As he broke tackles and stayed in bounds along the sideline, he prepared for a hit from Meriweather, who lowered his head again and tried to knock Starks into next week. Instead, he knocked himself silly and left the game with a concussion.
The line continued to stretch out the defense, and Starks continued to find the holes.
"We talked all week, just run and stay moving as a line," Sitton said. "Even if you got out-leveraged, just keep moving, keep running. That's something we talk about all the time. Even if you don't have the perfect block, you just keep running, good things will happen."
What kept happening was Starks found holes to run through. Interspersed with a bunch of long completions by quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Starks played a big role in keeping drives alive.
"It was just more of a tempo game," center Evan Dietrich-Smith said. "We got clean looks, called the runs when they needed to be called. We had success when we called them. James did a hell of a job running.
"When you get out there and can create some space in the run game, it opens up the pass game. Then you can do whatever you want out there. It's kind of what it turned into."
Starks finally reached the end zone in the third quarter with a 32-yard run through an enormous hole on the left side.
The Packers finished with 580 yards, the second most in franchise history behind the 628 Vince Lombardi's team gained against Philadelphia in 1962. Of those yards gained Sunday, 139 were on the ground, which was a major improvement from the 63 the Packers gained against the 49ers.
Starks said he never gave up on himself despite seeing Lacy and Franklin receive the bulk of the work in preseason games and believed he would get his chance at some point. He said he studied this week as though he were going to play to make sure he was ready whenever the call came.
"I feel good," Starks said. "That's what I worked for this off-season, to be better as a player, to come in here and be better, period: different person, different mind-set."


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NEW YORK - Just two months after recovering the last of its losses from the financial crisis, the Dow Jones industrial average charged higher Tuesday, closing above 15,000 for the first time.
It was another milestone in the market's epic ascent of 2013. Good economic reports, strong corporate earnings and fresh support from central banks have eased investors' concerns about another economic slowdown. Many had been on the lookout for signs a spring swoon would derail the rally, as happened in each of the past three years.
Instead, Wall Street has climbed almost 15 percent since Jan. 1.
The Dow closed at 15,056.20, up 87.31 points, or 0.6 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index added 8.46 points to 1,625.96, a gain of 0.5 percent. Both indexes reached all-time highs earlier this year, then kept climbing, largely driven by optimism that the U.S. economy will continue gaining strength.
"We don't think people are giving enough credit to the strength of the economy," said Ryan Detrick, a senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research. "We still like the market."
The gains piled up with the growing realization among investors that the traditional threats to a rising market - higher interest rates, falling profits, a possible recession - are unlikely to appear anytime soon. What's more, with interest rates near record lows, they see few other places to put their money.
In a round of interviews on Monday, investor Warren Buffett said the stock market looked "reasonably priced" even after its surge. But, Buffett added, people pay too much attention to markets reaching new highs. They ought to pay attention when markets hit new lows.
"That's when stocks are getting cheaper," Buffett said. "That's when stocks are going on sale. But people do get more excited when they see new highs."
Record-high profits have also encouraged investors who fretted that slumping sales would lead to shrinking earnings. More than 400 of the S&P 500 companies have turned in first-quarter results, and more than seven out of 10 have beaten Wall Street's earnings expectations, according to S&P Capital IQ. Those analysts estimate that earnings increased 5 percent in the first quarter and will pick up their pace through the rest of the year.
Fossil, a maker of watches and handbags, was among the companies reporting earnings Tuesday. Its stock leapt $8.92, or 9 percent, to $107.88 after the company said higher sales lifted its earnings.
DirecTV, the country's largest provider of satellite TV services, surged $3.99, or 7 percent, to $61.95 after its earnings beat analysts' expectations. The company reported more subscribers in the U.S. and Latin America.
For the Dow, it was the 17th straight Tuesday of increases. The only day of the week with a longer series of consecutive gains is Wednesday, which logged a streak of 24, Detrick said.
In other trading, the Nasdaq composite rose 3.66 points to 3,396.63, up 0.1 percent.
Japanese stocks surged, pushing the Nikkei above 14,000 for the first time in nearly five years. The Nikkei has jumped 36 percent this year after the Bank of Japan announced a new aggressive monetary policy to get the country out of its two-decade stagnation.
In Europe, Germany's main DAX index touched a record of 8,195, bouyed by surprisingly strong industrial orders.
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Associated Press Writer Bernard Condon in New York contributed to this report.


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The Kid Stays In The Picture
Save that picture..it will be famous one day.
It is possible that the fact that I let my fifteen-month-old daughter use my camera and then post the product of her efforts on the Internet is just so much more evidence that I am an unrepentant attention-whore...
The fact that you let your fifteen-month-old use your camera suggests to me that you are her good mother, letting her explore a technology and an art that's new to her, without freaking out about your camera getting broken.
That you post her photo suggests that you are her mother. Just her mother, always her mother.
I like seeing kids' photos. I like trying to figure out what inspired them to take the pictures.
I've done it, too.
are you calling me an attention-whore?
(truth hurts, i suppose)
Hey, it's Jeff in Ottawa from CW High. Been lurking for a while, but had to post in reply to your latest entry. HILARIOUS. We gave the boy his own camera last summer when he was 5. No shit, a quarter of the pictures were of his feet. Another quarter were of other people's feet. Even feet at higher-than-eye-level for him, so it's not a looking-down thing. Shoes on a shelf in a closet? Art fodder! Profound insight into the boy's interests was had. Anyways, been enjoying your posts while I'm on temporary hiatus from employment. Keep the kid's pictures coming - I'm curious to see if the boy's apparent foot fetish is one of the phases one reads about in good parenting literature. Rock on.
wow... you're taking a picture of wonderbaby taking a picture. that's so, like, metaphotographic. :)
love this!! the Magpie has been trying to get her hands on my camera forever, though it's usually just to bang on it...
and, dude, I think you have my camera!
We are nothing if not meta 'round here, Lara.
And, um, JEFF? Wow. Delurking much appreciated - but now you've got me freaked that there are dozens (or at least twos or threes) of old high school buddies hanging out around this blog. Laughing, probably. And pointing.
If I gave my nine-month-old my digital camera, the only shots would be of his mouth as he tried to eat the lens.
Yes, more Wonderbaby!
That kid is a budding Diane Arbus...without the crazy, of course.
look for a tiny, sparsely-haired performance-toddler, and her bad mother
No, look for the platinum bob. That's what we all did at BlogHer.
Wonderbaby has got a good eye. :)
Well, of course the world needs more of Wonderbaby! And she took a nice photo. You too.
Love it, love it! Now I'm going to steal it! So, did you or are you planning to frame Wonderbaby's art?
Portrait of a young artist as a Wonderbaby.
Only one of my three is interested in the camera, which she mainly uses to take photos of her toys. I could do quite a post of blury toy photos. Now that she's nearly 8, we're getting her an inexpensive and sturdy digital camera so that she stops using up MY batteries all the time.
My husband lets MF use our digital camera as well... Maybe he'll become a famous photographer and support us in our old age. ;-)
(Wishing I lived near Toronto...)
My 3-year old has her own camera, and usually she takes pictures of her toys and the floor and things that, honestly, aren't very moving.
But this one time she took the most perfect picture of the branches of our jade plant, and I was so shocked that I almost started crying. It was perfectly lovely, and worth all the pictures I had to scan through to reach it.
So, keep snapping, WonderBaby!!
Crap! We were looking for something fun to do this weekend and the Bunch thing is now sold out! Rrrgh.
Mme L's first photo was of a pot of porridge, but I would have expected SHOES, just like Jeff's kid, because SHOES were all she could talk about for a while. Did I mention SHOES?!
Excellent work WB...
The really exciting part is how you managed to get a picture of her while she was holding the camera. Aer you controlling The Matrix or what???
No Matrix, just the magic of multiple cameras.
Oh criminy, why is it always on the saturday I work?
Brave comes to mind. I'm afraid when the kids even get near the camera.
Psst...there is something waiting for you over at my blog.
Goodness, that camera is as big as her head!!!
Love the WB photos. They make me smile and that is all good!
I am getting my hair done (doesn't that sound lovely and relaxing?) on Saturday, or me and the Boy would totally be hanging out with Your Bad Selves.
Yes, the world does need more WonderBaby.
Hi there:
I am a Mom from Nova Scotia, and have been reading your blog for a few months. I really enjoy your writing, and your little girl is sweet.
How is your darling nephew? I think of his Mom often...she must be so strong.
Have fun this week-end!
Hello, Her Bad Mother (though, really, you are quite good): Just wanted to let you know that I've named you on my blog in something that looks like a meme, but is really just deep praise. Thanks for making me think!
I'm here via Mom-nos, so thank you to you both, and that was the perfect piece to link.
Heard about it... We want to go as this is where Boy Wonder and I had our wedding reception....MANY moons ago....
Neat picture - very architectural?
I wish I lived in Toronto sometimes! You always do such fun things!
That sounded like fun. Let us know how it was.
I get very nervous when the kids are around the camera, but hubby always hands it right over. We have lots of toy shots too!
Nice job WB.
Bad...if only i was closer.
i've missed you, by the way. glad to be back your way.
If she takes pis at fifteen months, what will she take when she's two, seven, nine? twnety three? yee-gads....
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Updated: 16th March 2015
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This page is to help you become more aware of the rights and laws with regard to street dogs and their caretakers, so that we can all tactfully and astutely handle confronting situations our neighbours 'love' to create when they see our love for dogs.
The below information and documents have been carefully compiled by us. Please use them, take print outs, circulate them to spread awareness on the subject or in situations, whenever you feel harassed by your local RWA or any other person who attempts to harass you for befriending street dogs,-for these animals have as much a right to inhabit the areas they were born in as we do.
Where these street dogs are born is where they belong.
To summarise the content of this page, there is no law that prohibits feeding of street animals, and that citizens who choose to do so are in fact performing a duty cast upon them by the Constitution of India. Persons who are trying to interfere with their effort, or display aggression, can be held liable for having committed the offence described in the Indian Penal Code and criminal intimidation. Moreover, that as per Indian law, street dogs cannot be beaten or driven away. Please remember that the only humane, legal and scientific way of dealing with street dogs is to get them vaccinated and sterilized under Animal Birth Control Programme (ABC). Under this program, stray dogs are picked up, neutered, vaccinated against rabies and released in the respective areas from where they had been captured, which is in accordance with the Animal Birth Control Rules 2001 framed, under Section 38 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 and as per the orders of Honourable Supreme Court of India.
In its report, Technical Report Series 931, WHO's Expert Consultation on Rabies, which met in Geneva from 5 to 8 October 2004, states as follows and endorses that the ABC program constitutes the only effective and humane method of controlling stray dog populations:
"Since the 1960s, ABC programs coupled with rabies vaccination have been advocated as a method to control urban street male and female dog populations and ultimately human rabies in Asia. The rationale is to reduce the dog population turnover as well as the number of dogs susceptible to rabies and limit aspects of male dog behavior (such as dispersal and fighting) that facilitate the spread of rabies. The culling of dogs during these programs may be counterproductive as sterilized, vaccinated dogs may be destroyed"
Animal Birth Control Programme comprises of two components:
- Sterilization of street dogs, which is the surgical removal of their sex organs (specifically, surgical removal of uterus in case of female dogs and surgical removal of testicles of male dogs) and;
- Administration of an Anti Rabies Vaccine, prior to the dogs being released in the same area where they were picked up from.
Advantages of Animal Birth Control Programme are as follows:
ü Sterilization helps calm the dogs down and restricts their numbers.
ü There is scientific thought behind restoring a sterilized dog to his original habitat. Dogs are territorial animals. They mark out their territories based on the food available and they do not let outsiders come in. When these local dogs are removed from their territory, other dogs move in to occupy them. These may not be sterilized so the problem continues for that locality. Dog fights increase as any new dog entering a territory is attacked by the dogs already in that area and non-sterilized dogs continue to mate and produce litters. Rabies continues to spread as none of the dogs in that area are vaccinated against it. The new dogs are hostile to the residents so problems of safety continue. A sterilized and vaccinated dog doesn't breed, they guard their territory from intruders and new dogs, and they become docile and don't fight with other dogs during the mating season.
ü Getting dogs sterilized is the best form of welfare we can all do for street dogs, as these dogs will be vaccinated in the process and will not have to give birth to pups anymore, something they can't otherwise do without human intervention.
ü Only Dogs above the age of 4 months can be picked up for sterilization/
ü The right ear of sterilized dogs is notched/cut at the tip as a mark of identification.
1. The laws governing Street Dog Sterilization in India
Government of India notified the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001, under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 vide the Gazette of India: Extra Ordinary Part II – Sec. 3 – sub section.II dated 24th December 2001 to implement sterilization and vaccination of street/community dogs to control the dog population.
As per Indian law, street dogs cannot be beaten, killed or driven away or displaced or dislocated, they can only be sterilized in the manner envisaged in the The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001 enacted under the Indian Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 (A Central Act), vaccinated, and then returned back to their original locations.
Rule 6 and Rule 7 of The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001, state as follows:
- Rule 6 clearly envisages that even if the Municipal Corporation thinks it expedient to control street dog populations; IT CANNOT RESORT TO KILLING OR DISLOCATING. It can only sterilize and immunize the dogs, and then leave them at the locations that they had been picked up from.
- Rule 7 deals with the procedure to be followed upon receipt of a complaint. Please also note, the Municipality, cannot just pick up dogs, simply because some persons/administrators don't like their being around. Even the dogs that are complained about can only be sterilized and immunized, and then left back at the locations that they had been picked up from.
Please note there is a specific bar against dislocating dogs, since the same tends to interfere with and jeopardize the area-wise animal birth control. For the area-wise sterilization program mandated by law, dogs have to be returned back to their original habitat after sterilization and immunization. These dogs then tend to fight off other, newer, possibly unsterilized and unvaccinated dogs from entering their territories, since dogs are highly territorial in nature. Dislocation of street dogs has time and again proven to be counter-productive and only favours the entry of other non-sterilized street dogs into the area, which will not only be unknown to you but also to those who tend to the area's street dogs, thus raising more cases of man-animal conflict.
Ministry of Public Grievances Circular on Street Dogs to Central Govt Employees dated 26.5.2006
The Stray feeding guidelines by the Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, New Delhi letter no.F.No.30/9/2006-WELFARE dated 26.5.2006, applicable for:
· Treatment of street dogs by government servants: If any Govt. Servant indulges in act of cruelty to animals he will be making himself liable for action under Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Besides, punishment under the Act, he would also make himself liable for action under CCS (Conduct) Rules for conduct unbecoming of a Govt. Servant.
· Resident Welfare Associations, citizens and others: Stray animals are to be dealt with through designated agencies in Govt./local self-government organizations/ NGO's etc. Recognised Associations in Govt. colonies may approach such Institutions for redressal of their grievances. All the problems of stray animals have to be handled within the institutional framework available and NO resident association, recognized or unrecognized, shall take recourse to action on their own, either themselves or through any person employed by them like security guards etc.
A Direct Order dated 3rd March 2008 was issued by Animal Welfare Board of India, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India (D.O. AWBI/PCA/3.3.2008), referring to the above-mentioned Memo and provides for immunity to animal feeders and restrict government employees or bodies such as Resident Welfare Associations from harassing people who try to feed or help animals.
Moreover, there is no law that prohibits the feeding of street animals. Citizens/animal welfare volunteers who choose to do so are in fact performing a duty cast upon them by the Constitution of India – of showing compassion to all living creatures. Recently, the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory body under Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India has framed exhaustive Guidelines regarding stray dog feeding. These have been placed before and upheld by the High Court of Delhi. The orders passed on 18th December, 2009, and 4th February, 2010 by the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi, mandate not only that those street dogs will be fed, but that they will be fed in order to confine them to the localities/areas that they belong to. Confining them to the localities that they belong to facilitates area-wise animal birth control, and yearly/annual vaccination.
The Delhi High Court, vide its rulings in 2009 and 2010, have also actually ordered the Delhi Police to protect persons who feed and care for street dogs, and who are often exposed to the ire of ill-informed, ill-advised residents/administrators of those areas.
The Delhi High Court in its judgement, pronounced on 18.12.2009 and 4.2.2010, says that "it is necessary to bring into record that these individuals and families who adopt stray animals are doing a great service to humanity as they are acting in the aid and assistance of Municipal Authorities by providing these animals with food and shelter and also by getting them vaccinated and sterilized. Without assistance of such persons no local Municipal Authority can successfully carry out its ABC programme".
The Court has proceeded to say that "the local police and the municipal authorities are under obligation not only to encourage such adoption but also to ensure protection to such persons who come forward to take care of these animals specifically the community or neighbourhood dogs so that they are not subjected to any kind of cruelty", finally, the Court has said "that every individual has the right to live his life in the manner he wants and it is necessary that the society and the community recognize it".
Also remember that under the Indian laws, animal cruelty is an offence – under Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and Section and 429 of the Indian Penal Code – punishable with imprisonment and fine. Likewise, criminal intimidation, and criminally intimidating animal welfare volunteers is a serious offence under the Indian Penal Code (specifically, Section 503 of Indian Penal Code read with Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code 1860).
Please also read and download the 26th February 2015 dated Circular issued by the Animal Welfare Board of India to all Resident Welfare Associations and Societies on the lawful manner of dealing with street as well as pet dogs can be accessed by clicking here.
Below image is a scanned copy (newspaper advertisement) of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) notification, showing the approach of the M.C.D. with regard to street animals (which is based on the law of the land). This is a 2009 dated advertisement and there have since been changes in the names of NGOs working with the MCD on doing dog sterilization work in Delhi:
Below is a Scanned copy of a Hindustan Times news report dated 24th January 2009 regarding the view taken by the Supreme Court regarding stray dogs;
A copy of the Delhi's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's order dated 2nd May 2007 related to feeding and looking after Street Dogs (CC No. 47/1/2007- case of Mita Das Gupta vs.Malini Sehgal etc.) can be accessed by clicking here.
Every citizen of India is thus hereby advised to abide by the law, and refrain from uncivilized, criminal actions such as seeking to intimidate those who choose to deal with street animals compassionately.
Watching the video links below will further clear up your doubts on this subject:


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|Giovanni Montana
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Great advances have been made in the field of genetic analysis over the last years. The availability of millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in widely available databases, coupled with major advances in SNP genotyping technology that reduce costs and increase throughput, are enabling a host of studies aimed at elucidating the genetic basis of complex disease. The focus in this task view is on R packages implementing statistical methods and algorithms for the analysis of genetic data and for related population genetics studies.
A number of R packages are already available and many more are most likely to be developed in the near future. Please send your comments and suggestions to the task view maintainer.


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